However, you many not see any improvement in performance by closing background iOS apps. If you are on Windows or Mac, you always quit applications that you are not using so that more memory (RAM) becomes available to front-running apps. Should You Quit Background Apps Manually? The Process Killer app mentioned above might be helpful in such situations though else you need not worry about shutting down suspended background apps. In the past, I have seem apps, especially games, that became unresponsive (freeze) and force quit was the only way to get them working again. Alternatively, you can just pull and release the processes list ( see video) to close all the background running apps at once. Launch the app and then shake your iPhone / iPad to terminate every single app that could be running in the background. You don’t even have to jailbreak your device. If you would like to close all the background apps at once, here’s a free app for iPhone and iPad that can help. If a particular app is not running, this action will simply remove its listing from the multitasking bar. You tap and hold your finger on the app icon until it begins to jiggle and you can then press the red “minus” sign to close one or more of these background apps. When you double-tap the home button of your iPad or iPhone, the dock will show a list of all the recently used apps and some of them could still be running in the background.

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